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Show BRIT 1SWe The HEIR BIA L. "The Eb die EBS enclofing a fingle feed of the bignels of a corn oy.+8 No Gree Vill. A ZAG BA: A Sj A LX By Ay 2. Heart-leaved Leadwort. fegments at HE. flowerconfifts of a fingle petal, which is long, tubular, and divided into five the cupis the edge: the fruit is a fingle capfule, of a roundfigure, containingfive cells; and five fegments. fmall, coloured, formed of one piece, and divided into five threads, and the Linnzus places this among the péntandria monogynia each flower having ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit being fingle. Authors have been perplexed where to put the feveral plants belonging to this genus: fome have that is very obvious, as will be feen when we treat of ci/tus, called them ci/fus’s but the difference genus being of another clafs. many parts, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The fhoots are numerous, and fpread every way upon the ground into a very large and thick tuft. Wome FE The ftalks are woody, and covered with a dark coloured rind, tough, thin, and four or five inches long, fometimes much more. Theleaves are very numerous and very fmall: they are of a dark green, and theyftand in pairs : they are oblong, flender, and fharp-pointed. The flowers growat the tops of the branches, two, three, or more together: they are large, and of a beautiful red. The feed-veffel is large, and contains many feeds. It is a native of the mountains of Germany, and flowers.in July. C, Bauhine calls it Chameciftus ferpyllifolia floribus coccineis. Azalea vifcofan z 7lo4 biy$ The root is long and fpreading, divided into ‘ Plumbago foliis cordatis. The root confifts of a numberof thick fibres, brown, tough, and hot to the tafte; filling the mouth with water when chewed, in the manner of pyrethrum, The firft leaves are large, and of a deep green, they rife eight or ten together: they have long footftalks, and are oblong and broad, not dentated 103 at the edge, heart-fafhioned at the bafe, and pointed. The ftalk is round, fitm, upright, and two foot high. The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and re+ femble thofe from the root: the lower ones have confiderable foorftalks ; thofe on the upperpart of the ftalk and branches have none. The flowers are very beautiful, large, and {nowwhite. Their cup is hairy: the fruit is long and rough. It is anative of Ceylon, but grows freely in our gardens. Commelin calls it Lychnis Indica fpicata ocymaftri folio, fructibus oblongis lappaceis, radice urenté, a.Clammy Azalea: x. Procumbent Azalea. Azalea procumbens. of wheat. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Lepidium dentillaria dittum: Others, Plumbago Plinii HER BA L Others, Cy/tus ferpyllifelia: but the leaves are narrower than to be properly expreffed by that name. GiB Nig The root; is woody and fpreading. The fhoots are numerous and tough, woody, and covered witha grey rind. The leaves are frequent, of a pale green, and pinnated : each confifts of three or morepairs of large, oval pinna, with an odd leaf muchlarger than either at the end: they are hairy and not ferrated. The flowers ftand in little clufters at the tops of the branches, eight or ten together: they are long, flender, and very beautiful, and have a fragrant fmell: they are hairy on the outfide, and clammy to the touch. The feed-veffel is fmall, but contains numerous feeds. It is a native of Virginia, where it is common in the woods. Plukenet calls it Ciftus Virginiana flore et odore periclymeni. Thefe plants have no known virtues. [Un oad LE. A.D'IW,O.:R.-T. PLUM BA G..O; "THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular in the lower part, narrower toward the neck than near the bottom, and divided into five fegments at the edge. The fruit is a fingle capfule, of a rude and imperfe& form, containing only one feed: the cup is formed of one piece, and is pentangular, rough on thefurface, and divided into five fegments at ‘the rim. Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the flower having five threads,s, and the ftyle from the rudiment ofthe capfule being fingle. Gites The leaves ftandirregularly on them, and refemble thofe at the root: they are oblong, broad, Plumbago vulgaris. aL The root is long, large, and furnifhed with many fibres. Thefirft leaves rife in a thick, fmall tuft, and are of a deep green, broad, fomewhat oval in fhape, and without footftalks. The ftalks rife.in the centre of the tuft, and are round, firm, upright, very much branched, and two feet high: thev are ufually of a deep purplifh colour, often blackith. and oval towardthe end, but with a narrow and long bafe: they have no footftalks, but enclofe the main ftalk at the bottom. From the bofomof every leaf rifes a branch, and on the tops ofthefe ftand the fowers : they are numerous, moderately large, and purple: they are paler.at firft, and grow ofa deeper colour as they open, and decline into a red as they fade. The feed-veffel is a thin fkin, or little more, enclofing Usits Suns tes LY GH Ne? D EVA, LT COHEN DEE” confifts of afingle petal; the lower part is tubular, long, and bent; and the rim is to five broad fegments: the fruit is a fingle capfule, of an oval figure, but with three tins three cells: the cup is formed of a fingle piece, marked with ten ridges, and divided into five fegments., We have yet no Englifh namefor this genus. Linnaus places it among the pentandria monogynia; the threads in each flower being five, and the ftyle fromthe rudiment of the capfule fingle. This author takes away the received name of the genus, and calls it ph/ox : we préferve that by whichit is beft known. The ftalk is upright, round, firm, of a pale 1. Narrow-leaved hairy Lychnidéa, green, little hairy, andabout fix inches high. The leaves ftand in pairs upon it: they are Lychnidea anguftifolia villofa. oot is long, flender and creeping. Che firft leaves-rife in a very thick tuft: they long, narrow, and of a -dufky green: they lks, and are a little hairy. rife in the centre, and they are ‘rous, and a foot high: they branched, and are of a brown coé hairy. ie leaves ftand in pairs, and have no footlong, narrow, andfharp-pointed, , not at all divided at the edges, andof a tiful green. The flowers ftand in a tuft at the top of the Iks, and ar ye, and of a-pale red, fomeof a deeper, and fometimes white: the wers in July. 4aiea 1. Common Leadwort. oN very fmall, and ‘not numerous: they are of a dufky green, and hairy, and generally droop: they are narrow, oblong, and have no foorftalks. From the bofoms ofthefe rife young fhoots, which have the fame kind of leaves on them, but in agreater number; as have alfo thofe which firft come up, and which trail on the ground. The flowers are large and very beautiful: they have eachits feparate hairy footftalk ; and they generally rife oppofite to one another. Thefeed-veffel is large, and the feeds are numerous. It is a native of Virginia. Plukenet calls it Lychnidee blattarie accedens “ti minorrepens, birfatis camphoratae foliis, Linnzus, Phlox foliis fubulatis birfutis, floribus 3. Narrow-leaved {mooth Lychnidea, idea anguftifolia glabra. Ccalyeuls Tre enet, Lych2 Na Major The'root is long, flender; creeping, and-full offibres. The ftalk is “round, tender, of a pale green, branched, not at all hairy, andfive inches high. eaves are'very numerous, and of a pale green: they ftand in pairs, and are extremely but they are broadeft'at the bafe where adhere to the ftalk, and fmaller all the way The flowers are large, and fland fingly at the 2 tops |